Articulating Human Computer Interaction with Science, Technology and Society studies

Abstract

This paper aims to show how Human Computing Interaction (HCI) can explore a couple of concepts from Science, Technology and Society (STS) field. Understand how STS defines Technological determinism and Non-neutrality of technology can improve HCI's analytical, theoretical, projectual and political skills to act together with societies in which they exist. We understand that these issues are not new in IHC community (at least for some segments) and sometimes they are considered tacitly, implicitly, but not always explicitly and theoretically. Treat IHC and STS jointly allows to explain more clearly some of these issues through long-established concepts and common vocabulary.